Even the specific design indicators are similar, the Navy of the Kingdom of Krull hopes that the new torpedo boat destroyer will have at least four guns of more than 100 mm caliber and a number of small-caliber machine guns, equipped with multiple torpedo launchers, and the speed of more than 25 knots or even higher, and considering that the actual speed of many torpedo boats has exceeded 25 knots, they would prefer that the speed of the torpedo boat destroyer can reach more than 27 knots.

At the same time, it is hoped that the destroyer will have a large endurance and seaworthiness for ocean-going operations.

The design index of the above-mentioned destroyer is very similar to the design index requirements of the Daheng Imperial Navy for the Lijiang-class second-class destroyer, because the strategy of the two navies is similar, and they are both offensive navies with ocean-going operations as the core, and they also require ocean-going combat performance.

Relatively speaking, other countries have different needs for warships similar to large torpedo boats, they generally do not require too much endurance, but pay more attention to speed and firepower, because they do not need to carry out ocean-going operations at all, and most of the tasks they perform are defensive tasks.

Based on the needs of naval warfare in the new era, the Navy of the Krull Kingdom has put forward relevant design plans internally, and is ready to design and build a variety of different destroyers, including 300-ton and 500-ton destroyers.

Its 500-ton destroyer is very similar to the Lijiang-class second-class destroyer designed and started by the Daheng Imperial Navy last fall, with a standard displacement of 500 tons, equipped with two twin-mounted torpedo tubes, a speed of 27 knots, and a very good endurance!

In addition to the Lijiang-class second-class destroyers, the Daheng Imperial Navy also has the first-class destroyer Yuanlin-class.

This ship is very different from the torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers of other countries, but is more similar to the third-class cruisers of various countries.

This is mainly because the Daheng Imperial Navy does not have too many new third-class cruisers, and the old third-class cruisers are no longer usable.

Therefore, the Navy developed the Yuanlin-class destroyer, which was used to undertake many combat missions of third-class cruisers, and also to shoulder the combat missions of the destroyers themselves, including lightning strikes.

Therefore, the ship actually has two models, one is the fleet Yuanlin-class type A that focuses on peripheral early warning and anti-lightning strike operations, and the other is the B type that focuses on lightning strike operations.

One ship and two types, this is to improve the versatility of the ship and reduce the construction cost, after all, their hulls are the same, but the firepower and power layout are different, the fleet is more focused on artillery firepower, and the lightning type is more focused on speed and torpedo firepower.

Because of the existence of the Yuanlin-class first-class destroyer type A, it also directly led to the complete haltation of the development of third-class cruisers in the Daheng Imperial Navy, or this Yuanlin-class first-class destroyer is the successor model of the third-class cruiser in the Daheng Imperial Navy.

In the third phase of the development plan of the Daheng Imperial Navy, there was still a plan to build two third-class cruisers at the beginning, but they were soon canceled and turned into an order for first-class destroyers of the Yuanlin class.

The Navy felt that if it built a special unprotected cruiser of more than 2,000 tons, it would be better to simply use the Yuanlin-class first-class destroyer, which has wider applicability, cheaper construction, and low cost of daily use, and at the same time can also take into account all kinds of miscellaneous tasks, such as serving as a notification ship, a VIP transport ship, and so on.

In short, it can do what a third-class cruiser can do, and it can also conduct lightning strike operations, and the price is cheaper.

From this, it can be seen that not only the battleships and cruisers in the Daheng Imperial Navy have become larger, but also the destroyers have also begun to become larger.

And this also comes with a kind of compromise and helplessness!

Because with the development of technology, battleships are getting bigger and more expensive, which forces the Daheng Navy to try to develop smaller and cheaper warships to replace the combat missions of some battleships, which is also the reason why the Daheng Imperial Navy began to engage in armored cruisers.

The reason is simple!

The price of a battleship is one a year, and ten years ago, about three million Hengyuan could build a battleship, but soon the price rose to four million Hengyuan, five million Hengyuan, and as for the current Jingzhou-class battleships, the price is more than seven million Hengyuan.

With such an expensive price, except for the navy of the Krull Kingdom, which can continue to build a dozen, most of the other countries are already looking for alternatives.

The construction of armored cruisers for use as capital ships has become the choice of the navies of many countries in recent years.

The navy of the Great Heng Empire is no exception, although the Great Heng Empire has a good economic development, it still lacks a foundation, and its per capita income is far worse than that of the Krull Kingdom.

In addition, there are many places where money is used everywhere in the country, and it is impossible to say that too much money is invested in the army, and at the same time, the navy is in the process of large-scale expansion, so the navy's military spending is actually very tight.

The cost of the Jingzhou-class battleship reached more than seven million Heng Yuan, which is not counting the R&D expenses that were smashed in before, and such an expensive price made the Daheng Empire feel struggling!

In order to save costs and take into account other tactical considerations, the Daheng Imperial Navy increased the number of armored cruisers built twice.

The Toyoyang-class armored cruiser has been increased from the previous two construction plans to the current four, and there are also secondary ship plans.

The navy of the Great Heng Empire is like this, not to mention the navies of other countries!

In order to maintain the size of the fleet in limited funds, more and more countries choose to build armored cruisers, some to break diplomatic relations, and some to replace the capital ships for fleet decisive battles, the purpose is different, but the results are all the same.

However, as the tonnage of armored cruisers became larger and larger, the price became more and more expensive, and the navies of various countries had to start looking for other ways to reduce costs, and the standard displacement of Fengyang-class armored cruisers reached more than 12,000 tons, and the cost exceeded 6 million Hengyuan.

Armored cruisers are already not a cheap replacement for battleships!

The standard displacement of this thing is enough to compare with the Harold Battleship, the largest first-class battleship in the Krull Kingdom.

For this reason, the navy of the Great Heng Empire began to make the second-class cruisers larger......

In the past, two or three thousand tons were very good second-class cruisers, but now the Xialin-class second-class cruisers under construction in the Imperial Navy are more than 4,000 tons......

When second-class cruisers are also becoming more and more expensive, it will inevitably lead to third-class cruisers becoming more and more expensive.

At this time, the Daheng Navy simply cut off the more and more expensive third-class cruisers and began to replace the third-class cruisers with first-class destroyers.

The increase in the size of warships is a remarkable change brought about by technological changes in the last decade, not only the navy of the Great Heng Empire, but also the navies of other countries.

But this time, the Great Heng Imperial Navy is ahead of all the nations!

When other countries were still debating what kind of warships should be built in the future and what kind of naval strategy to adopt because of the Battle of Ian, the hull of the Jingzhou cruiser of the Daheng Imperial Navy had already completed most of the construction, in addition to three Jingzhou-class battleships under construction, and two were planned.

There are two Fengyang-class armored cruisers under construction and two proposed.

However, the above-mentioned capital ships were not completed and put into service so quickly, and it is expected that the first ship to be commissioned is the Xialin, the lead ship of the second-class cruiser of the Xialin-class.

The ship was constructed earlier than the Jingzhou-class capital ship, and the construction of the ship was also more experimental in nature, so the construction was given priority guarantee, so the construction progress was very fast.

It only took a year for the ship to be completed and launched, and it took only two months for outfitting!

In July of the eighth year of Qiansheng, when the Orr War was still going on, and the navies of all countries in the world were still shocked by the Battle of Ian, and they were still a little confused about the future development of naval warfare, the second-class cruiser Xialin had quietly completed all the construction and carried out sea trials!

After a simple sea trial, the ship is ready to officially join the active service of the Navy and carry out a series of tests and tests!

Although this is only a cruiser, this is the first warship in the world to be built in full accordance with the strategic needs of long-distance blockade in the new era, and it uses many technologies that are leading in the world and have not been found in other countries.

It includes a series of new technologies such as nickel-chromium hardened armor, small and medium-caliber tube retracting rapid-fire guns, smokeless gunpowder, nickel-chromium alloy armor-piercing shells, armored piercing shells, and high-pressure ventilation and water tube boiler technology.

In the past, although the Great Heng Empire had secretly tested the above technologies on different test ships, it had never concentrated all of the above new technologies on the same warship.

The cruiser Charin is the first battleship to integrate many of the above new technologies, and it is also the first ship of the Blue Star!

It means a lot!

When the ship was officially commissioned in August of the eighth year of Qiansheng, Lin Ziran also presided over a naval meeting in the Jinggong Palace, and this meeting, based on the situation and experience of the Ian naval battle, once again emphasized the core naval strategic development content in the third naval development plan, that is, emphasizing ocean-going operations and long-distance blockade.

At the same time, in order to counter the long-distance blockade of the empire by other countries, a large naval base is planned to be built in the East China Sea Islands in the eastern sea of the empire, as a forward base for the fleet, and also the first line of maritime defense.

The East China Sea Islands, located in the northeastern waters of the empire, are composed of fifteen larger islands and more than one hundred small islands, which belong to the territory of the empire.

A few hundred nautical miles east of the East China Sea archipelago is Dongji Island.

The area of this East Pole Island is very large, with hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, but it is very barren, and the inland is a rare island desert terrain, and only a small number of coastal areas are suitable for human habitation.

Because of this, in ancient times, there were not too many people on Dongji Island, only a few small ports to provide supplies for passing merchant ships, and later the Krull Kingdom established colonies on it and immigrated on a large scale, and now it is controlled by the Krull Kingdom, which is a direct territory of the Krull Kingdom.

In the early years, the Great Heng Empire had been expanding inland, and it didn't have time to pay attention to these desert islands in the sea, but when the Great Heng Empire reacted and successively seized a large number of islands in the East China Sea Islands, the East Pole Island was already completely controlled by the Krull Kingdom.

In addition, the relationship between the Daheng Empire and the Krull Kingdom is actually not bad traditionally, and there has never been a war between the two countries, so this Dongji Island has always been under the control of the Krull Kingdom.

But now, this Dongji Island has become a direct threat to the eastern part of the Daheng Empire, and for this reason, the Daheng Navy is also preparing to build a naval base and set up a patrol fleet in the East China Sea Islands.

After the naval meeting, Lin Ziran was also a little free, and returned to the harem to have lunch with Empress Meng Yuling and a pair of daughters.